Guillaume Apollinaire (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
The man known since his twentieth year as Guillaume Apollinaire was the illegitimate son of Angélique Alexandrine de Kostrowitzky, a member of the Polish nobility whose family had taken refuge at the papal court. She first registered her son under a false name but a month later had him baptized as Guillaume Albert Wladimir Alexandre Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky. The mystery of his father’s identity lasted for seventy years; he has since been identified as Francesco Flugi d’Aspermont of a family originally from Switzerland. Wilhelm, or Kostro as he was called at...
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